For Newbies and anyone else interested in DVD "auto" copying software

TRILIGHT, very good point and in no way am i bashing you here, but you dont want to get off your "lazy ass" and switch movies in the middle, but you will take that "lazy ass" and put it through a 10 hour or more process to encode and strip and everything else it needs to get the dvd backed-up...plus i can back-up around 5-6 movies a day around classes and stuff...when i was encoding...i could do only like 2...IMO..so take it for whats its worth...

No offense taken. ;) As I've said to many others, I think you're missing the point of why I, and many other people, actually do all of this. It's about 90% learning/hobby and only about 10% wanting to back something up. For me, the reward is the journey itself. In fact, I'm going to find myself a bit bored when/if it ever does come down to just throwing a disc in and copying it to one DVDR. Being able to finesse things such that they work the same as the original on one DVDR is like an artform right now. I'll have to find a new hobby when it's gone. I really am lazy when it comes to watching movies though. I really don't want to have to keep up with multiple discs for one movie or get up in the middle of a movie to switch discs out.

Trilight, Oh to be young enough to be able to sit through an entire movie without having to get up to pee half way through. Even if the movie can be made to fit on 1 dvd-r, I still have to stop it somewhere in the middle. LOL. Seriously, I do understand your point. The journey is sometimes more rewarding than the destination. For me, it also is a hobby. From vcd to DVD2SVCD to DVD2DVDR to DVDXCopy to DVDSplit & DVDBurn I have them all and have used them all. The excitement was in the learning. Indeed very few movies are made in one year that even warrent watching, let alone buying or copying. I have to go now, you know what I mean?

Yes, doing a 1:1 copy of a DVD5 is just plain BORING...I enjoy the challenge of finding a DVD9 that needs encoded with CCE and then calculating the proper bitrate in order to get the best quality video on my DVDR.... PK

TRILIGHT: Look at this software... or I think that DVD "auto" copying software would be a reality in the near future... Antonio S.